Sylvia Plath and Anne Stevenson: Two uncommon poets born two months apart
Clare Winger Harris, “The Miracle of the Lily”
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Law and disorder in Edward Dmytryk’s Warlock
Heywood Broun, “This Side of Paradise?”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s stark, unheeded “Warning” on slavery
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Sherwood Anderson, “The New Englander”
Laurence Maslon answers your questions about the great American musical